Chapter 6 - The Rossi Archive Contained Enough Evidence to Destroy Three Criminal Families, but the Most Shocking File Was About My Own MotherThe archive was enormous.
Rows of documents.
Old recordings.
Photographs.
Bank records.
Birth certificates.
Death certificates.
Maps.
The Moretti family wasn't the only organization involved.
The Bellmonts.
The Haven network.
Political figures.
Law enforcement.
Judges.
Doctors.
Everyone.
I found my mother's name.
A file from twenty-seven years earlier.
ELENA ROSSI — INFORMANT.
She had been working undercover.
She wasn't simply escaping the Morettis.
She was exposing them.
That's why she had disappeared.
She had discovered that Anthony was selling information.
He had betrayed the family.
She had collected evidence.
Then she became a target.
Victor found another file.
ALEXANDRA MORETTI — DECEASED.
“No,” I said.
Victor stared.
“Who is Alexandra?”
“My father's sister.”
“She wasn't dead.”
The file contained a photograph.
Alexandra was alive.
She had been another informant.
The family had declared her dead to protect her.
The lies went deeper than any of us realized.
Then we found the final file.
PROJECT HEIR.
It contained a list of children.
Me.
Claire.
Lily.
And another name.
SOPHIA MORETTI.
I stared.
“Who is Sophia?”
Victor didn't know.
Claire shook her head.
“Another child.”
“Where?”
“Unknown.”
The archive contained one final clue.
A hospital.
Another newborn.
Another crescent.
Someone had been protecting multiple branches of the family.
Lily wasn't the only heir.
Anthony wanted the archive because it identified every heir.
He wanted control of all of them.
We couldn't let him.
I made a decision.
“We release everything.”
Victor looked at me.
“Publicly?”
“Yes.”
“That destroys your family's wealth.”
“Yes.”
“And mine.”
“Yes.”
“And your daughter's inheritance.”
“I don't care.”
Victor stared.
“Why?”
“Because no fortune is worth raising my daughter in fear.”
He nodded.
That was the moment the Moretti family truly changed.
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Not when Anthony was defeated.
When we chose to end the system ourselves.
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